Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner

Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner

'The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.'

Destined to be a haunter of libraries, Lewis's cautious progress through life reveals to him only his own shortcomings. Estranged from his wife and daughter, he searches for an alternative. This novel presents the life and aspirations of one man who remains out of step with his times.

How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit-- Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
'A searching study of innocence, and the limitations of innocence.' * London Review of Books *
Elegant, nuanced; at times almost Jamesian in its convolution and subtlety. * L.A. Times *

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and after holding a post as a professor at Cambridge University and spending several years in Paris, she worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her twenty-fourth, Strangers, in 2009. In 1984, she won the Booker Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner published a number of volumes of art criticism. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990. She died in 2016 at the age of 87.

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ISBN 13	9780241977798
ISBN 10	0241977797
Title	Lewis Percy
Author	Anita Brookner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2016-06-02
Number of pages	272
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